After the end of World War II, there was much to be done to improve the Indiana University Medical Center for the better. As can be seen from the document written in 1945, postwar plans were drawn out to improve the administrative, educational, research set-up, and curriculum for postgraduate study and to incorporate the creation of new buildings in preparation for the arrival of the armed forces....

In 1909, the surgery bed was revolutionized, changing surgery and hospital care forever. Right at the turn of the century, Dr. Willis D. Gatch, an Indiana University graduate of 1901 and then Resident Assistant Surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, published his work on his modern surgery bed. Later called the Gatch Bed, it solved a great deal of issues in several areas of patient care. Originally intended...